because of the payroll tax cut, we got tax increases. my wife and i are among the 50% that they both payroll taxes and income taxes. we are going to take a $200 per month hit in increased payroll taxes. they should have given us a corresponding tax credits for $200 a month income tax that we pay. my wife is a federal employee and has not gotten a raise in over two years. i work for small employer in philadelphia and have not gotten a raise in five years. we have a neighbor who is a public employee union person. he told me this year he got 6%. last year he got 4%. the year before, he got 4%. i see certain groups of people, like governor romney, he pays 10% of his income in federal taxes. on the left, you have all these labor union people who all are getting ahead of the rest of us and we are going nowhere. is this government really representing us or do we have to have lobbyists in d.c. helping us?? host: the newspapers note this morning that governor romney did not attend the inauguration and that he was at his home in california. the in